1.0Amnesty Internationalhttps://www.amnesty.org/enSaudi Arabia: Muzzling critical voices: politicized trials before Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court - Amnesty Internationalrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="XrNJII54qi"><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde23/1633/2020/en/">Saudi Arabia: Muzzling critical voices: politicized trials before Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde23/1633/2020/en/embed/#?secret=XrNJII54qi" width="600" height="338" title="“Saudi Arabia: Muzzling critical voices: politicized trials before Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court” — Amnesty International" data-secret="XrNJII54qi" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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Despite the Saudi Arabian authorities’ rhetoric about reforms, they have unleashed an intense crackdown on citizens promoting change in the last few years. One of the instruments of that repression has been the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC), which was set up in 2008 to try individuals accused of terror-related crimes. Amnesty International has documented the […]https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/whoweare_2944x1224_header.jpg1178490